The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-11-16

partially and administered inpar;laliy
and Justly, as the laws Of South Carollna
were enacted and administered, there
should be no g.ounds of complaint. II
reference to the relation Of Soatii Caro-
lima to the Federal Government and lef
individual rights, Gen. Butler spoke at
length. He said the people decry the Fed
eraI Constitution is thing Of the past.
Under it the States have not the rights
they had before the war. Where IS the
change? Why, only in the 18th, l4th
and 18th amendments. Not another line
has been changed, and as lar ss the rights
of the States are concerned, tie '-oDsli-
tuition today is the same as IL 1860. Con
gress, the speaker said, was usorpipg the
rights Of the States, but there vas man
at the head OF the nation, Grover Cieve-
land, who respected those sacred rights
The dangerous tendency CT tie times
was the calling upon Congress to settle
Individual matters AID TO teke JurlsGlc-
ton in cases where it had no right under
the laws and the Constitution OF the
United States. Congress Was attempting
to assume the power OF the Parliament
OF Great Britain.
In speaking Of Cleveland Senat0r
Butler said the President had bscn de-
nounced in this State as well as others
for bis civil service policy. This policy
OF the President was simply uphoidiog
the Laws which he himself (ButEeT) and
his friends on the stand had helpvd to
pass. 1t III becomes any man in Socth
Carolina to critic;se the President for
this action. Whatever It has done for
other States, it has been everything for
South Carolina. When Cleveland leaves
his Office there viii not be many Repub-
liens in Office. Voice in the audience:
"But they are there now. Butler:
''Very few, and at any late there ere
none in South Carolina.
Senator Butler spoke tor some time
on the surplus in the treasury. When
asked how ne would reduce it, be eaii
be would start by taking the tax OF
eighty-three per cent. Oft salt and sixty
per cent. Of hat or piece OF cloth.
He read statistics on tariff rates AMI
showed the enormous tax put upon the
people by the present tariff system. lie
was convinced that no laboring man was
protected by the tariff. Il SO, why was
there so much discomfort, bloody riots,
strikes. &C., among American laborers?
The real reason of such discomfort was
that Congress passed laws Strengthening
capital and crushing individual effort.
The money went into the capitalists
pockets that was taken from labor.
Cleveland was blamed for the surplus III
the treasury, when he (Butler) and bis
colleagues on the stand were ten thou
sand times mora responsible and yet un-
able to prevent it. We have profound
cause for congratulation that q man ike
Cleveland is at the head of the Govern
ment. He has made that contemptlbie
Haunting Of the bloody shics thing Of
the past. The foundation Of the Coy
errment 1as tie right Of home rule
tie right Of the psople to regulate their
own affairs with due reg; I'd to The gen
eral Government, and he hoped the time
would never come when the people OF
this State would ever give up their
rigll:.
Senator Cutler gave United States
Judge Bond terrible scrring when re-
ferring to the oppression Of the people
in this State, and wished it understood
that he was wiling to reiterate his re-
marks in New York, Washington, or
anywhere else.
At 1910 the association adjourned.